Site Reliability Engineer (AI Accelerator Infrastructure)

Location: Santa Clara, United States; hybrid

Company

hirify.global designs and manufactures purpose-built AI inference silicon and develops the infrastructure supporting silicon engineering, AI/ML research, and customer deployments.

What you will do

• Own the reliability and availability of colocation server fleets, on-premises lab clusters, cloud environments, and customer-facing platform services.
• Provision and troubleshoot bare-metal servers, operating systems, networks, storage, and physical hardware.
• Operate high-speed interconnect environments including InfiniBand, RoCE, and high-speed Ethernet.
• Build infrastructure-as-code and automation with Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, configuration management, fleet health checks, auto-remediation, and self-service tooling.
• Design monitoring dashboards, alerting, and service-level indicators with Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog; participate in on-call incident response.
• Produce root-cause analyses, improve system reliability, and maintain customer-environment documentation and operational runbooks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus 5+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge covering networking, storage, systemd, package management, kernel parameters, and performance diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with colocation or on-premises server infrastructure, physical hardware, rack networking, and bare-metal provisioning.
• Production experience writing and maintaining Terraform and/or Ansible configurations, along with Kubernetes operations covering troubleshooting, workloads, storage, and networking.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana or DataDog, Python and/or Bash automation, structured incident response, and RCA production.
• Ability to own infrastructure systems, document implementations, and operate effectively in a fast-moving startup environment.

Nice to have

• Customer-facing infrastructure, cloud operations across AWS, Azure, or GCP, and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments.
• HPC scheduler experience with Slurm, LSF, or an equivalent platform.
• Knowledge of InfiniBand, RoCE, or NVLink configuration and troubleshooting.
• Go programming for SRE tooling and experience with large-scale automation, fleet auto-healing, or AIOps-driven operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month contract with potential conversion to a full-time position.
• Hands-on, high-ownership infrastructure role spanning colocation, on-premises labs, and cloud platforms.
• Collaborative and inclusive environment emphasizing respect, humility, direct communication, and execution.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to a welcoming and empowered work environment.